Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
New contract for disposal service needed
COLFAX — A fifth cell may be added to make more room at the Whitman County landfill.
An engineering study meeting will be held Wednesday for the project which may add another expansive area for dumping and eventually be sealed and monitored when full.
County Public Works Director Mark Story told county commissioners on Monday that the idea is just in the feasibility phase at this point.
He noted the reasons to look into are costs to transport the waste elsewhere.
“At some point, the price of diesel, or carbon credit, whatever it may be, will price us out of the market,” said Storey.
He added the county’s waste long-haul contract, which is up for re-negotiation in 2022, will need to kept for another five years at least.
For the past eight years, nearly all of the household garbage of Whitman County has been put into containers and taken by truck to Spokane, where it is loaded onto trains and shipped to Roosevelt and taken by trucks to a nearby landfill.
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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